Rolls-Royce's new Indianapolis plant called 'cutting edge' way to cut costs

7:43 PM,
Nov. 4, 2013

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Rolls-Royce dedicated an Indianapolis "focus factory" Monday that hints at what could become of the jet engine maker's outdated 1942 Tibbs Avenue plant.

The new plant in the AmeriPlex business park on the Southwestside is the latest example of a stand-alone, single-product manufacturing site for Rolls. The plant makes only one part - banded stators that go inside the compressors in jet engines - and does it in a lean-cost, high-tech way that Rolls sees as the future for many products it puts its name on.

The 81,500-square-foot plant at 5345 Decatur Blvd. shipped its first parts in October. ...